Today we announced that our LinkedIn Premium subscribers - Premium Business and Premium Careers - are up 25% year-over-year and it’s now a $1.7 billion annual business. New capabilities and AI features have helped to accelerate growth and bring new value for subscribers. You can read more in this post from Daniel Shapero, Chief Operating Officer at LinkedIn.  ..read more

Business leaders acknowledge that employees will need new skills to work with AI, yet only a third (38%) of US executives are helping their workforce become AI-literate, our new research finds*.  Helping employees develop new skills is critical, given the rapid advancements and adoption of AI. The skills needed for jobs globally is projected to change by 51% by 2030 (since 2016), and the rise of generative AI will accelerate this change to 68%, according to LinkedIn data. Providing skill and career development opportunities isn’t just a “perk”— it’s a business need, a powerful retentio ..read more

Today, Microsoft announced Q2 FY24 Earnings. Included in the report on the financial performance were the following LinkedIn highlights: In Q2, LinkedIn’s revenue increased 9% year-over-year (8% in constant currency). LinkedIn is now helping over one billion members learn, sell, and get hired.  We continue to see strong global membership growth, driven by member sign-ups in key markets like Germany and India.   In an ever-changing job market, members are staying competitive through skill-building and knowledge-sharing. Over the last twelve months, members have added 680 millio ..read more

Today, we unveiled a new report that sheds light on the habits of top-performing sales professionals: Deep Sales: The B2B Sales Playbook to Boost Revenue in 2024. Over the past few years, B2B buyers and sellers have had to adapt to countless shifts in ways of working, and old playbooks are no longer effective in the current environment. This new report uncovers insights that can serve as a guide for helping sellers identify how to breakthrough with buyers to drive revenue this year.  Highlights from this report include:  Top-performing sales professionals are 2x more likely to hit ..read more

Today we shared information and resources about the policies and technologies we have in place to keep conversations professional during elections and at all times on our platform. You can read more in this post from Wei Tu, our VP of Trust Engineering, and on our LinkedIn Company Page ..read more

Today we shared in a post from Sarah Wight, our VP of Legal, how LinkedIn is preparing for the new Digital Markets Act. People using LinkedIn in Europe will have the ability to choose how to connect their core LinkedIn experience across LinkedIn jobs, ads and learning features. Read more about the news in Sarah’s post ..read more

Today, Microsoft announced Q2 FY24 Earnings. Included in the report on the financial performance were the following LinkedIn highlights: In Q2, LinkedIn’s revenue increased 9% year-over-year (8% in constant currency). LinkedIn is now helping over one billion members learn, sell, and get hired.  We continue to see strong global membership growth, driven by member sign-ups in key markets like Germany and India.   In an ever-changing job market, members are staying competitive through skill-building and knowledge-sharing. Over the last twelve months, members have added 680 millio ..read more

Hoy anunciamos la disponibilidad de la verificación de identidad para millones de nuevos miembros en Alemania, Austria, Bélgica, Bulgaria, Chipre, Croacia, Dinamarca, Eslovaquia, Eslovenia, España, Estonia, Finlandia, Francia, Grecia, Hungría, Irlanda, Italia, Letonia, Lituania, Luxemburgo, Malta, Países Bajos, Polonia, Portugal, Reino Unido, República Checa, Rumanía, Suecia y Suiza. La verificación de LinkedIn es un servicio gratuito que presentamos este año para que todos los miembros de la fuerza laboral mundial tengan la posibilidad de verificar al menos un aspecto de su identidad profesi ..read more

Today, we shared that we are making identity verification available to millions of new people in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. LinkedIn verification is a free service we introduced this year for every member of the global workforce to have the ability to verify at least one attribute of their professional identity ..read more

Recently, we took another step forward in protecting people who use LinkedIn from fake accounts by winning our case against two companies that built a business selling inauthentic engagement. Read more in this platform share from Legal VP Sarah Wight ..read more